There was an interesting forum thread I came across, concerning Target Focus Training and Aikido. Check it out, since it’s an interesting comparison between those that have attended TFT seminar live training and those that haven’t, but are practicing martial arts.

If you know me, then you will know that I just had to write a response. Even though the thread was written a full year ago.
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One’s techniques MIGHT not work. If you are not used to that and do not practice this way… then well… your training situation is too different from what might actually happen.

TFT is able to train people in a short time because they don’t use your limitations. They handle the fact that your techniques might not work by… not focusing on techniques. What might happen is as numerous as the stars in the sky. What will happen when you are attacking and injuring an enemy is much more limited.

Techniques are learned through practice, and competition sport techniques are learned through practicing competition style tournaments and fights. Since TFT is only designed to injure and kill criminals, there is no way to “practice” unless it is cooperative practice. And since they are not teaching techniques, they do not need sparring as much as competitive sports do.

Different priorities results in different products.

TFT is designed for students and clients with zero experience in violence and martial arts. Thus, it has to be more than just something for people with belts in martial arts. Because their system is the way it is, the way they treat successive strikes is also very different from what competitive sports produce.

The theory of chain comboing attacks remains a theory until it is applied. It is just that the applications differ depending upon who you are asking. A lot of things may be obvious to people in the abstract, but it is the application and the details that separates the crowd out.

If a person with zero training sees this TFT website, takes some seminars/videos/trains for couple of months and this builds up confidence. That confidence could vey well get HIM killed.

It could, which might be why the US Special Forces and SEALs used the exact same training principles, and even instructor, as TFT uses. They needed to be sure that, confident or not, in armor or not, tired or not, with ammo or not, that the first time they use it is the first time that it works.

That’s a crime. And that’s lying to people.-J

Of what use are hypotheticals and wild guesses to the subject of life and death? It’s a crime just because you visualized a mental scenario and assume that it is what is going on? Is such a thing the key to victory, do you think?

I mean to me that’s yucky and I wouldn’t want to bite anyone in the world of today nor I would not want to practice it but they have their thing down!-J

Unless you can bite through a person’s carotid and jugular, what is the point? It’s much easier to just claw out the eyes. Then you’re certain you’ve injured the enemy, whereas with a bite, you might have to rely on taste and other subjective senses to determine what you got.

I would love to spar your wife and her friends (LOL) with let’s say… groin protection and goggles and boxing gloves.

Do you really believe you can “train” for a life and death situation by fighting a guy with groin protectors, goggles, and boxing gloves?

Anyway I can not see why not implement resistance training.-J

Because that kind of training is “play”. It might give someone confidence that they can hit and perhaps push back an assailant, but in reality, when they don’t get the reaction that they saw in practice for real life, they will hesitate and die.

soft spots and yes that might shy away an unconfident rapist but that’s not the point is it?-J

Indeed, since the point is getting an injury, not playing around with people armored up.

As I’ve learned from a reliable source: Superior speed, will power and technical knowledge is all taken away by a thumb driven through the eyeball, and I mean right through to the back of the eye socket. YUK!-Original Post Author

Even an Abrams tank can get taken down if you shoot at its weakest point. If simple small arms fire can’t get through, then it is time to put out the heavy firepower. The nuclear package even.

How do YOU know? How do YOU know it works for YOU?-j

Because as someone with high endorphine and adrenaline aids for pain and injury, I still need time to “psyche up” and I don’t have that time if someone puts his elbow and 150 pounds of force into my throat. What applies to me also applies to any other human being. Being dead is the only objective criteria in determining who has won, in war or in duels or in free for alls. If you are dead, you are definitely the loser. And it doesn’t really matter who disputes that.

Can you still fight with a crushed throat? Maybe. Can you still fight with a ruptured testicle? Perhaps for some. Can you still fight with a broken neck? Some guy with a gun in hand can still fire it even with a broken neck, I can certainly admit that.

None of that matters. If you still have the capacity to launch attacks and injure the other guy, go and do it. And just the same, I will damage my enemy to the point where I Am Confident that he won’t be getting up, no matter how fanatical or pumped up with endorphines/drugs he is. Confidence? I am confident that so long as I am alive and conscious, I can kill and destroy my enemies. Victory is never guaranteed, that is why we still have wars.

Of course people have also taken accidental shots to the groin and were unable to continue the fight BUT people have also been able to continue right away (the referee was at the blind angle) recover and reverse the fight.-J

Are you under the delusion that TFT says “hit these 5 critical targets, and you win”?

In that situation, in my opinion, no one is going to land EVERY strike exactly where they want it. If you are well trained in TFT then yes, you have a good chance of landing a shot to a critical zone and ending the conflict. But like everything else, don’t preach that when I’m attacked it’s going to be this “1 strike bad guy fall down hype” either.-Michael O’Brien

Tim Larkin specifically has already said that they teach you to select targets and then go to the next ones, because targeting is not 100% absolute guaranteed.

Violence doesn’t use strength or speed as a means of domination? I would venture to say that a violent act is MUCH MORE easily thwarted if it wasn’t fueled by strength, speed, aggressiveness, and killer instinct.

Guy who planted the IED that killed Majors in the US Army just did it cause he needed to feed his family. Strength? IED Guy is malnutrioned. Speed? Can’t be too fast planting explosives or too slow. Aggressiveness? Sneak attacks are sneak attacks because someone learned that violence didn’t need “aggressiveness”. Killer instinct? IED guy doesn’t have a specific American he wants to see dead.

So which person does the United States have more trouble killing, the guy with “killer instinct” meaning Al Qaeda, or the average Iraqi that just wants a living wage?

1. How do you train shoving a finger up to 2nd knuckle in someones eyesocket?

They use a trick off of the OODA cycle used for military live fire training.

Observe, orientate, decide, and act. Find the eye socket, orientate to your hands or other weapon attachments, decide which finger to use, and then use that finger to scoop the eye out.

This is replicated in a non-damaging practice through having the Finger, whichever that might be, touching and then applying force to an opponent’s eyebrows or cheek or other spot near the eyes. The cooperative partner then moves his head, as you slowly apply force. Or he moves his head without any pressure on your part. Regardless of the details, you get the benefit of seeing the reaction you would get in real life, getting the feeling in your fingers that you would get in real situations, approximately, and doing exactly the same thing you would do if you wanted to scoop out the other guy’s eyes. Except in practice, you don’t injure the other guy. In real life, you just position your finger over his eye, push it in, and when your finger is all in the way in, the force of your blow causes his head to turn away.

By training your body to respond correctly to the correct stimuli, you bypass the OODA problems that would crop up in “tap out situations”. Situations where you do something different than what you practiced for, and suddenly your brain initiates an OODA loop. Like this. Observe that something wrong has occured, orientate to what is going on, decide on how to correct it, and then act. Just before “Act”, you have lost the initiative and are now being the one injured, like the martial artist that accepted a tap out, due to his OODA loop initiating without his knowledge, and got stabbed.

What this does is that even if your attempt to attack is foiled, due to whatever, your OODA loop is still shorter than the other guy’s. Thus this acts as a force multiplier in violent situations, giving you an edge. Why is your OODA loops shorter and fewer than the other guy’s? Because the other guy has at least two OODA loops after your failed attack on his eyes. He has observed that your attack failed, he has orientated to the situation that he still has both his eyes, he has decided that he no longer needs to continue defending his eyes, and then he decides to look at you and decide on how to attack. Then another loop starts, which is he observes you, orientates to your body, decides to attack you with fists, then acts.

But, remember that while he has to worry about adequately defending himself and also worry about attacking you somewhere, the only thing you are thinking of is finding a new target. This is why attackers have the initiative, until their fuel runs out of their tanks that is. By the time you get tired or your fuel runs out, the fight should be over.
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Jorgen Matsi is of course, J. Much of what he says is reflected in TFT, but because Jorgen has a different set of philosophical beliefs, contrary to TFT *like cooperative practice being null in MA meaning that it is null and void in TFT too*, thus making him opposed to TFT. If only because of ignorance. Seeing is believing, so if you wish, you can watch this free fight video clip TFT put up.
On another note, Grim Beorn has two killer articles about human nature here. Go read, now.

People have been talking about the Vietnamese war since decades ago. About how it was the US supporting a corrupt South Vietnam against a National Vietnamese movement and all that jazz. The thing is, everything that people accuse S Vietnam of, is also true for S Korea. But why don’t people say the same things about South Korea that they do about South Vietnam?

Because South Vietnam lost the war. The night map of Korea is not just a testament to what happens when folks are on the wrong side of a war, but what happens when the war never ended and you are still on the wrong side of the war. Vietnam is a great example of what happens when you are on the winning side as well as the losing side. The losing side gets to talk about South Vietnamese corruption and “mistakes made”, assuming anybody on the losing side is still alive. The winning side gets bragging rights at Hanoi.

People talk about South Vietnam’s problems because it is pointless to talk about South Korea’s problems given how successful it is. Success in war matters more than any propaganda formed from words. Victory shuts people up more effectively than any angry yelling or protesting.

There was much talk about the blood debt of the media in relation to America’s loss in Vietnam and what the media is doing to America right now, over at Neo-Neocon’s blog. In order to paint a broader and more consistent picture, that ties things together, I am going to compose together a couple of blog posts I recently read.

I said in a comment at Neo’s blog that there is such a thing as a pyramid of useful idiotry. Where you had the Soviets at the top, making use of the Leftists, and the Leftists making use of the fake liberals of the Democrat party. When the Soviets left a vacancy, Arab and Persian children killers took it up.

Some people are under the impression that liberals, as of today, believe in human rights, American national security, and thus the equivalent things that the conservatives believe in. This fullfills the need to sit on the fence and excuse the media’s crimes against humanity by saying the media does it for “both sides” and that both sides are just as good or bad or anything else a person may think up to say. It also whitewashes Leftist activism and sabotage of America’s national security, by bringing up the claim that Leftists are extremists and don’t outnumber the so called “liberals” of the Democrat party.

To all of the excuses made for the media, the Left, the Democrats, and their other allies, this is my response.

By 1973, Arafat was a Soviet puppet (and would remain such until the fall of the USSR). His adjutants, including Mahmoud Abbas, were being trained by the KGB in guerrilla warfare, espionage, and demolition; and his ideologues had gone to North Vietnam to learn the propaganda Tao of Ho Chi Minh.

Arafat was particularly struck by Ho’s success in mobilizing left-wing sympathizers in Europe and the United States, where activists on American campuses, enthusiastically following the line of North Vietnamese operatives, had succeeded in reframing the Vietnam War from a Communist assault on the south to a struggle for national liberation. Ho’s chief strategist, General Giap, made it clear to Arafat and his lieutenants that in order to succeed, they too needed to redefine the terms of theirstruggle.

Giap’s counsel was simple but profound: the PLO needed to work in a way that concealed its real goals, permitted strategic deception, and gave the appearance of moderation: “Stop talking about annihilating Israel and instead turn your terror war into a struggle for human rights. Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.”

Mitsu, a commenter at Neo-Neocon, notably made the claim that just because Democrats disagree about US national security, does not mean that the Democrats or “liberals” are helping our enemies. Since Leftists and their fake liberal allies are helping our enemies, it really doesn’t matter what fake liberals actually intended, now does it. Tools do not exist because they have an intent to do something either way.

The damage to the car was assessed to be around 2k. The family waived prosecuting for felony charges and wanted the case to go away as fast as can be. They didn’t want a trial and neither did Grodner. Grodner, as a lawyer, knew what could happen to him in a trial. Which is why he said he “knowingly damaged” the car, even though he was arguing first that he didn’t “knowingly” damage the car. When the judge said that if you say no, then it is going to trial, the lawyer acted like the man he was. Which was not a man at all and submitted.

Some people will try to downplay this as being just one incident where Matt of Blackfive couldn’t get the media to report on an injustice against a Marine for being a Marine. That the media does this against the Left too. Such excuses are just attempts to sit on the fence, hoping problems will go away. It doesn’t cover up the fact that the New York Times and other media propaganda apparatuses goes out of their way to attack the US military as being victims and dupes and homeless blokes. It is only when an actual case of injustice crops up, that the media suddenly must be forced and motivated to cover.

The biggest stunner is probably this youtube video. We’ve read about individual Leftists and foreigners conducting propaganda operations designed to target American citizens. Now we will see a government affiliated bureaucracy and “commission” put the boot heel on Canadian free speech. It puts paid to the fantasy that Leftists are not important because they are a minority. In fact, them being a minority allows them an easier way to control the majority of a nation’s populace. If they were a majority, they wouldn’t be nearly as unethical and anti-liberal, since majorities are hard to shift to extremism all at once.

Leftists have great power because they are small. To some people, with Leftist beliefs, this means that the Left are victims and should be helped along in life. I don’t think so. Nor are Leftists just like isolationists on the right.

I think this common among Ns, because I too have seen them suddenly boost the intimidation and violence when the old, less forcing tactics no longer work. To incredible levels! In fact, I couldn’t believe my eyes and ears. I’d have never thought this person capable of such wild behavior.

So, thanks for the example. I don’t know this for sure, but I too feel that an N will go just as far as they think they need to (and can get away with) to get the job done.

If subtle mind-control tactics work, why risk landing in jail for physical violence? My guess is that this is the only consideration that normally holds them back from illegal acts and physical violence.

But that isn’t morality. The absence of physical violence does NOT mean that an N is incapable of it. It doesn’t mean the won’t someday (just like a three-year-old) instantly resort to it when frustrated.

I think that is one of the gravest dangers, because people get the idea that since their N doesn’t hit or do something as outrageous as guit his job or hit anyone, he or she isn’t as bad. Isn’t likely to ever do anything like that.

Then you are stunned when the day comes that the N needs to up the ante and he murders someone or does something else you’d never have dreamed him capable of. And he does it just as off-handly as he used to merely insult them before.

Because his pea shooter doesn’t work anymore, so he took out his canon. Ns are mental children, so they think like that.

That’s just my opinion, from my own shocked observations and from accounts of others. Which is why I always say that I think the only limit on what a N will do is what he thinks he can get away with.

In other words, I suspect that malignant narcissists are capable of anything. I know many people can’t buy that and even some authorities disagree. And I don’t blame them. I myself wouldn’t have believed it till I saw it. I was always thinking, “Oh he’d never do this” or “She’d never do that.” And I was dead wrong in every case. It was only a matter of time till something happened to trip their trigger and shock you with what they IMPULSIVELY just did without the slightest compunction.

But should it be a surpise when we know they care only about one thing – getting what they want?

Nothing else is even a consideration to them. So why should doing a big evil be any harder for them than doing a little evil is?

I think it’s a mistake to keep assuming they think like normal people do. They don’t. They think like a spoiled three-year-old thinks. And you know what’s going to happen if you let a spoiled three-year-old carry a gun. The moment stomping her foot and screaming at her playmates doesn’t work, she will thoughtlessly whip it out.

Who thinks g over at Bookworm Room is a malignant narcissist? (raise hand) Enjoy the rest.